Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@chandio I think trying to persuade people who may not be accustomed to that message to oppose war and imperialism is a more constructive and noble use of time than spewing anti-semitic caricatures on Twitter while cowardly hiding behind anonymity. But we have different value systems. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

How do people convince themselves that they're defending and working for some sort of subversive, emancipatory ideology when every corporation and center of imperial power embraces it and constantly waves its banner? Even if cynically motivated, it shows how dominant it is: — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@scottp33 You're Joseph McCarthy's heir, which is why you're a Democrat. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@chandio Aside from the impulse to always accuse Jews of being motivated solely by money to the point of even changing our names to mean pursuit of wealth, I don't get paid by Fox News and this message about war is one I've been defending for 15 years at least. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@timoteofaulkner So arguing that the US should be spending its resources not on more wars and imperialism but instead on domestic programs to improve people's lives is right-wing language now? That's odd because that argument always seemed central to left-liberal politics in the past. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

One of the post-9/11 episodes that most infuriated liberals was when @sullydish called war opponents "Fifth Columnists." He's since apologized multiple times. But now this same rhetoric, these tactics - right down to the phrase - come from beloved MSNBC stars and liberal culture: https://t.co/u39C3DCRpF — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Meanwhile, war-hungry neocons have re-migrated back to the Democratic Party to do what they exist to do: agitate for every war, demonize every US adversary, malign anyone who resists as a traitor. They know liberal culture is their best host for this: https://t.co/T4qh4Q4OaC — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

How about this? is it good or bad that this appears on the most-watched cable news outlet in the country? https://t.co/YwPjSSimR2 https://t.co/3HMljoiuYQ — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

For those continually trapped in the "conservative v. liberal" prism (prison), which message is this? Is it a message of the left or the right? At some point, political realities will force the recognition that these staid boxes from the 1990s are archaic and dead. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@mynakedtruth1 @Rightwingtweet2 But how does that justify using, defending and praising "a relic of Jim Crow"? That would seem like a wrong thing to do no matter the political situation, at least to me. Maybe you see Jim Crow differently. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@mynakedtruth1 @Rightwingtweet2 In 2020, Obama called the filibuster "a relic of Jim Crow." Was it that in 2005? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@mynakedtruth1 @Rightwingtweet2 In 2005, was the filibuster "a relic of Jim Crow"? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@ABurdmanAAL @Rightwingtweet2 How would any of that have made it justifiable to use and praise "a relic of Jim Crow" in 2005? What Jim Crow bad in 2005? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@Rightwingtweet2 What changed between 2005 and 2020 that could justify someone having previously been in favor of "a relic of Jim Crow" and a tool of white nationalism? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@branmjohn Defending and praising "a relic of Jim Crow" is a pretty significant thing to change your mind about. Do you think he only learned its history and its real purpose after he was elected to the US Senate and gave that speech? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

I remember watching in real-time as then-Sen. Obama delivered this stirring and eloquent defense of the Senate filibuster in 2005, when Democrats were in the minority in the Senate: about 15 years before he begin maligning the filibuster as a "relic of Jim Crow." https://t.co/lWiyqss3TB — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@Veritas1012 If I really thought that an instrument were a relic of Jim Crow and a tool of white nationalism and I… https://t.co/JiN9IuBKSU — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Democrats continue to call the filibuster the "Jim Crow filibuster" even though just ***last week***, Senate Democrats -- at the behest of the Biden WH -- used the Jim Crow filibuster to prevent enactment of Ted Cruz's sanctions bill which had 55 votes. https://t.co/T3r8RRbO4f — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@rydzyk_fizyk https://t.co/o3ARe9CFbW — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@westwasthebest https://t.co/mLjEKqhrCm — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@rydzyk_fizyk So was Iraq but the US press and think tank geniuses constantly spoke of the Iraqi insurgents. https://t.co/wKuyZHtrvb — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@Stuffer80 I'm sorry your personal life is so empty and barren that you have to focus in such a creepy and invasive way on mine, but my husband and kids are doing fine and you should mind your own fucking business. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@Stuffer80 But not for you? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

And: the most grievance on left and right is the low living standard of US workers. But DC says: hey, let's fight Russia by funding a Ukrainian insurgency, and nobody asks how much it'll cost, where the money will come from, what has to be sacrificed for it, why it's worth it. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The US has been all but running Ukraine as a colony -- to the point that Biden was dictating which prosecutors should be fired and Burisma paid Hunter $50k/month to curry favor with his dad -- but the DC class says "Russia has no right to interfere in Ukraine" and everyone nods. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@THElolercopter @luke_sandor @AOC I was on CNN and MSNBC constantly for years. If getting on cable were my motive, why didn't I just say all the things I would've needed to say to stay on there: Trump is Hitler, he's controlled by Putin, etc. This theory makes no sense. I was already on cable. Why would I switch? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @ggreenwald: Congress's 1/6 Committee Claims Absolute Power as it Investigates Citizens With No Judicial Limits https://t.co/qs4hgKaT8l — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Adam Smith, "Wealth of Nations": https://t.co/rRjXflREB9 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@seanschuerman @eric_weinberger No mocking members of Congress. They are to be treated with the greatest deference. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

At 4:45 pm ET -- in 15 minutes -- @qaomene and I will have our new @getcallin podcast episode to discuss the growing DC think-tank/foreign-policy-blob excitement over Russia/Ukraine war, as well as the emerging debate over US/China relations: https://t.co/pKycYkECjK — PolitiTweet.org